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Re: Christmas TV

Originally Posted by Twocky61

One year Sharon Osbourne did an alternative Queen's Speech on C4 against the BBC's real Queen's Speech lokl

That was in 2002 - a year that I was specially interested in watching the Queen's message, as I wanted to see what she had to say, considering it was the same year that she had lost both her mother and sister, and of course it was her Golden Jubilee celebrations as well. She said that it was as full as year as she can remember.

Christmas Day 1982 - Saturday 25th December 1982 - BBC-2 Television
2:10pm The Islanders (2/4)
2:40pm Gold From the Deep: The Salvage of the Century: HMS Edinburgh: Narrated by Robert Powell
3:40pm The Book Game
4:10pm 25 Years in Space: A Horizon Special
5:20pm Sellers Over Christmas: The Millionairess (1960 film) starring Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren
6:45pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
6:50pm News on 2, with Jan Leeming
6:55pm The World About Us: On the Tracks of the Wild otter
7:45pm The World of James Joyce
9:35pm Richard Baker's Christmas Dozen: The Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis
10:40-12:35am Fedora (1978 film) starring William Holden. Produced, Directed & Screenplay by Billy Wilder

Christmas Eve 1984 - Monday 24th December 1984 - ITV - Thames Television (London)
9:25am Thames News, followed by Father Murphy
10:15am Cartoon Time
10:30am Benji (1974 film)
12noon Freetime Christmas Special
12:30pm Goodwill to All Men
1:00pm ITN News at One, with Carol Barnes
1:20pm Thames News, with Robin Houston
1:30pm The Birth of Christ: Oliver Hunkin
1:45pm Scarecrow and Mrs King
2:40pm Take Over, presented by Brough Scott, with Suzanne Danielle, Sally James, Peter Davison, Derek Thompson
together with four members of the public as they test their skill with a simulator in landing Concorde and
driving a Scorpion reconnaissance vehicle.
3:10pm The Return of the Pink Panther (1974 film) starring Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer
5:15pm The Wind in the Willows
5:45pm ITN News
6:00pm Thames News
6:25pm Help: Viv Taylor Gee with community action news
6:35pm Crossroads
7:00pm What's My Line: host Eamonn Andrews
on the panel: George Gale, Barbara Kelly, Jilly Cooper, Ernie Wise, Patrick Mower
7:30pm Coronation Street
8:00pm Jim Davidson's Falklands Special
9:00pm Fun With Dick and Jane (1977 film) starring Jane Fonda, George Segal
10:40pm ITN News
10:50pm Joy to the World: David Pickering 12-yr-old Chorister of the Year
11:40-12:40am The Blessing of the Crib and the First Mass of Christmas,
from the Church of John the Baptist, Newcastle upon Tyne

10:45pm Des O'Connor Tonight: guests Hank Marvin, Mireille Matthieu
11:35pm Home for the Holidays (1972 film) starring Walter Brennan
12:50-1:00am Peace: Gill Nevill meets some of the people who are attempting to bring some peace
to different parts of the globe.